Last.fm Shutting Down Radio Streaming Service

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Starting on April 28, Last.fm will no longer offer its subscription-based streaming radio service, Billboard reports. They're still offering streaming music via their new player, though instead of hosting songs on their own servers, they're piping in outsourced audio from YouTube, VEVO, and Spotify.

In a forum post, the site's team write that they're focusing on scrobbling, music discovery, and recommendations.

"Following the launch of the new Last.fm Player earlier this year and Last.fm's partnership with Spotify for on-demand playback, we've revised the subscription service in order to focus on the new Last.fm Player and Last.fm's over-arching mission: world-class music recommendations," said Simon Moran, Last.fm's managing director, in a statement to Billboard.

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